Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1887-10-21
the property of a syndicate who will run
it in the interest of the Republican par

the property of a syndicate who will run
it in the interest of the Republican par
ty.
The personal Liberty" party is the
newest thing in New York politics. The
noble object of this organization is to Sc
cure the opening of saloons from p. m.
till midnight on Sundays.
Rev. Lyman Abbott editor of the
"Christian Union" commenting on the
difficulties of the American board. SAYS
he can see little difference whether the
final tribunal is the Pope OF Rome or the
prudential committee of Boston.
The appeal by Prof. Egbert C. Smyth
from the decision of the board of visitors
of the Andover Theological academy re-
moving him from the professorship is to
be filed with the supreme court of the
commonwealth by the 1st of November.
Iowa is the birthplace of two express
sive political terms. They are "prohib-
lican" and ''jugwump." The former is
applied to Republicans who favor pro-
hibition; the latter, to Democrats oppos-
ed to prohibition.
The express companies are to have a
chance to appear before the interstate
commerce commission at Washington on
the 25th inst, and argue the question of
the applicability of the law to their
hpc ioh tlo,
seems to be some doubt, has never been
decided by the commission.
Memphis had the President last Satur-
day, and as he was the first chief magis-
trate to visit the place, it made the most
of the occasion. The reception commit
tee numbered no less than seven hundred.
The only drawback to the festivities was
the absence of Gov. Taylor, who tele-
graphed that his staff couldn't get their
uniforms done in time.
The brief filed by the United States
counsel in the district court at Stka
shows that the ground to be taken by
this government in its proceedings
against the British sealers seized in Beh-
rings sea is that that sea Is part of the
territory ceded to the United States by
Russia and that this country has sole jur-
isdiction there. The question which will
make the most trouble is, whether this
sea is an inland sea and could be ceded.
81 have come to the conclusion that
there are only two courses left open to
the laboring classes of Great Britain.
One is to get protection at home, the 9TH
er is to go to some Englsh-speaking
country where they have got protection"
So says the secretary of the British
Workingmen's association in his annual
report; and yet in the face of such state
ments as this-and they are frequently
made-there are those in the United
States claiming to be friends of the labor
ing classes who will maintain that free
trade is what the country wants.
The Albany Argus tells how Henry
George, the anti-poverty agtator, trav-
els:
Henry George, the friend of the
workingmen, while on his way to Cohoes
on Monday where he spoke in the eve
ming, occupied whole section of a pal
ace car from New York on the train ar
irving in this city at 80 p. NJ. He sat
in beatific contemplation of the advan-
tages of being workingman and a
bread winner the while he pulled cigar,
and consoled himself with the reflection
that no millionaire, aristocrat, or other
enemy of the anti-poverty society could
intrude upon him to disturb his reveries.